How to rig an election
source: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/how-to-rig-an-election-ask-the-author/
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Interesting Q&A with author and former G.O.P. political operative Allen Raymond from NYT a few weeks ago.
Q: Is there really a line between "playing fair" and "cheating" in the electoral process? Is illegality the only measure of what can and cannot be done?
A: You don't win any prizes for running a moral campaign. Success in politics is all or nothing: a candidate wins or loses, period, and either ends up with power (and the extreme likelihood of retaining power) or no power whatsoever. So the "right" thing is simply defined as the "winning" thing.
Q: Is there really a line between "playing fair" and "cheating" in the electoral process? Is illegality the only measure of what can and cannot be done?
A: You don't win any prizes for running a moral campaign. Success in politics is all or nothing: a candidate wins or loses, period, and either ends up with power (and the extreme likelihood of retaining power) or no power whatsoever. So the "right" thing is simply defined as the "winning" thing.
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mjsmith11
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Great read. tank you for sharing. He gives the strongest reason to bring in Obama to the White House:
"The system is fine; it’s the people within it that are the obstruction. Politics is a business with its own graduate level degrees, which means student loans that need to be repaid and a need for big money to repay them."I can only imagine how much debt someone like Hillary Clinton would have to "repay". She has a ton of political baggage.
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echoz
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great link! thanks!!!
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echoz
